Sci fi envisions a postulated reality and there are no limits except with imagination to what the vision may be.
One aspect of the sci fi part is replacing the two-thousand year old financial barter system to evolve that into something more civilized. Some say this is impossible but ask yourself who would fight to preserve the existing economic system. I submit no-one would, we're simply stuck with it. Our people in the future aren't stuck with anything.
(Ed: a financial barter system is a contradiction in terms!)
Well, not really as there's no functional difference between trading dollars versus shiny sea shells.
I'm reluctant to go with sci fi to solve the immediate logistical problems of building the Rock City but likely I need to go with some type of glorious laser cannon instead of mechanical drills. Why not as "Things to Come" used monster lasers in 1936 and they weren't even invented yet.
Note: the movie is stiff and it's a heavy-handed morality play but it's an incredible vision from almost a century ago. My ol' Dad put me onto this one and it was an excellent tip.
Before we're concerned about the sci fi, economic or otherwise, there has to be an adequate foundation in the reality of the construct. After that I can get insane within it. So far we only have water, power, and heat but they aren't well defined yet and we need more than that because the Rock City has to be majorly inviting.
"The Mote in God's Eye" is again a model since it's a vision of bug-eyed monsters from another star but actually it's about human problems with population control and also with the incessant violence of humans. The BEM's are just the front and a very cool front it is to present the underlying sociology. It was brilliantly done by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle.
We, as in the Kaninchen, probably lost some number of Rockers today due to the article on Manifest Destiny but that's ok. If they can't handle reality, they sure as hell can't handle sci fi. Every word in that article is dead certain fact with as many links as you need to show it.
A broken reality is bait to anyone interested in sci because that elicits, by Jove, I'm going to fix that.
So, yes, we will.
I'm also reluctant to continue with the journalistic 'we' as part of the writing since it's a bit poofy and may be perceived as pretending I have a large staff. I've had a staff for many years in my life and pretending isn't necessary.
Note: the bank murdered all of them just as they murdered me and they whacked about twenty systems programmers but increased the managers. Never trust a bank on anything as that principle is exactly the same as the Pentagon in making more generals while simultaneously reducing the troop strength. They're parasites.
(Ed: I guess you need more sci fi since the Pentagon won't reduce the generals significantly even on order from the White House.)
Roger that, Cap'n. (US News & World Report: The Pentagon Has Too Many Generals)
Note: that's an old report but the problem only gets worse because the Pentagon so completely dominates the non-military wimps in Washington. Truman knew how to deal with wayward generals: fire the bastard (e.g. MacArthur).
(Ed: you're going to need a LOT of sci fi!)
That's fine as I've got lots. There isn't a problem in America which can't be solved with enough imagination but we see no evidence of that so we make up our own.
One aspect of the sci fi part is replacing the two-thousand year old financial barter system to evolve that into something more civilized. Some say this is impossible but ask yourself who would fight to preserve the existing economic system. I submit no-one would, we're simply stuck with it. Our people in the future aren't stuck with anything.
(Ed: a financial barter system is a contradiction in terms!)
Well, not really as there's no functional difference between trading dollars versus shiny sea shells.
I'm reluctant to go with sci fi to solve the immediate logistical problems of building the Rock City but likely I need to go with some type of glorious laser cannon instead of mechanical drills. Why not as "Things to Come" used monster lasers in 1936 and they weren't even invented yet.
Note: the movie is stiff and it's a heavy-handed morality play but it's an incredible vision from almost a century ago. My ol' Dad put me onto this one and it was an excellent tip.
Before we're concerned about the sci fi, economic or otherwise, there has to be an adequate foundation in the reality of the construct. After that I can get insane within it. So far we only have water, power, and heat but they aren't well defined yet and we need more than that because the Rock City has to be majorly inviting.
"The Mote in God's Eye" is again a model since it's a vision of bug-eyed monsters from another star but actually it's about human problems with population control and also with the incessant violence of humans. The BEM's are just the front and a very cool front it is to present the underlying sociology. It was brilliantly done by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle.
We, as in the Kaninchen, probably lost some number of Rockers today due to the article on Manifest Destiny but that's ok. If they can't handle reality, they sure as hell can't handle sci fi. Every word in that article is dead certain fact with as many links as you need to show it.
A broken reality is bait to anyone interested in sci because that elicits, by Jove, I'm going to fix that.
So, yes, we will.
I'm also reluctant to continue with the journalistic 'we' as part of the writing since it's a bit poofy and may be perceived as pretending I have a large staff. I've had a staff for many years in my life and pretending isn't necessary.
Note: the bank murdered all of them just as they murdered me and they whacked about twenty systems programmers but increased the managers. Never trust a bank on anything as that principle is exactly the same as the Pentagon in making more generals while simultaneously reducing the troop strength. They're parasites.
(Ed: I guess you need more sci fi since the Pentagon won't reduce the generals significantly even on order from the White House.)
Roger that, Cap'n. (US News & World Report: The Pentagon Has Too Many Generals)
Note: that's an old report but the problem only gets worse because the Pentagon so completely dominates the non-military wimps in Washington. Truman knew how to deal with wayward generals: fire the bastard (e.g. MacArthur).
(Ed: you're going to need a LOT of sci fi!)
That's fine as I've got lots. There isn't a problem in America which can't be solved with enough imagination but we see no evidence of that so we make up our own.
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